Life history of auguste comte quotes
Auguste comte biography.
Life history of auguste comte quotes
Auguste Comte
Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte (19 January1798 – 5 September1857) was a French philosopher who coined the terms "sociology" and "altruism" and developed forms of social discipline he called Positivism.
- See also:
- The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte
- The Philosophy of Mathematics
Quotes
- Social positivism only accepts duties, for all and towards all.
Its constant social viewpoint cannot include any notion of rights, for such notion always rests on individuality. We are born under a load of obligations of every kind, to our predecessors, to our successors, to our contemporaries.
These obligations then increase or accumulate, for it is some time before we can return any service. … Any human right is therefore as absurd as immoral. Since there are no divine rights anymore, this concept must therefore disappear completely as related only to the preliminary regime and totally inconsistent with the final state where there are only d